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Healing Love : Into Balance
Our learning and insights since 2019 have been elevated as we write this second brown paper. Beyond
the 12 dimensions of love framing in our first paper, we are bringing forward a continuum that goes from
disconnection to connection with indicators (Inside/outside separation and connection), within our original
continuum of Self-Love to Loving each other to Community Love to wielding Power with Love in an
ecosystem for change. That continuum is as follows:
Awareness/exposure/access/face
Attention/name/agency/choice
Intention/purpose/acknowledge/practice
Manifestations/action/time/
change/consequences
This continuum contemplates a new understanding of:
• Fear of our own and collective power, and to name this as the real obstacle it is;
• Human nature and the shadow sides of us as parts we cannot ignore but bring into balance with our
bright sides (wholeness);
• The need to engage with the environment we are in (place) as a source of our power, as our indigenous
friends implore us to do;
• The beauty that persists in the midst of extraction, exploitation, erasure by the white supremacist
culture or empire, and
• The clarity and everyday celebrations around us of what love is (which we miss too often)
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